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CVE-2016-7425
The arcmsr_iop_message_xfer function in drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 does not restrict a certain…
High7.8EPSS 0.45%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The arcmsr_iop_message_xfer function in drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 does not restrict a certain length field, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) via an ARCMSR_MESSAGE_WRITE_WQBUFFER control code.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 37 days later
· 37 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.45% · top 61% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (15)
- USN-3146-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1377330 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3144-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3146-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3145-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160916 Re: linux kernel SCSI arcmsr driver: buffer overflow in arcmsr_iop_message_xfer() (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [linux-kernel] 20160915 Re: [patch v2] arcmsr: buffer overflow in arcmsr_iop_message_xfer() (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-3144-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3147-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [linux-kernel] 20160915 [patch v2] arcmsr: buffer overflow in arcmsr_iop_message_xfer() (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7bc2b55a5c030685b399bb65b6baa9ccc3d1f167 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7425 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7bc2b55a5c030685b399bb65b6baa9ccc3d1f167 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3145-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 93037 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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